READERS of CM may never have heard of the Group of Nine. This is hardly surprising since it represents the nine national...

OVERCHARGING at tachograph calibration centres is expected to be ended by an imminent increase in the £10 statutory calibration...

HE FREIGHT Transport ■ ssociation has issued a quesionnaire to 1,000 members sking them for their exeriences with the...

HAULIERS who flouted picket lines during the threemonth steel strike are still being blacked in certain areas despite the...

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S Green Paper on transport infrastructure is still a long time away from being transformed into any...

INTERNATIONAL Harvester is likely to purchase a further 4.5 per cent share in DAF during the coming year, according to IH...

THE EUROPEAN Commission's proposals for an EEC transport infrastructure fund have been written off as "woolly and wasteful" by...

THE PROPOSED agreement between International Harvest' and ENASA (Pegaso) in Spain could mean the Internation 466-Series engines...

THE HEALTH and Safety Executive is preparing codes practice which will, among other things, give detailed guidan , on the best...

ROAD HAULAGE ASSOCIATION national chairman John Silbermann has sounded an early warning against "substantial" wage increases...

LUCAS KIENZLE has opened a purpose-built headquarters on the Gravelly Industrial Park in Birmingham as part of its programme of...

VANS under 30cwt unladen provide more money to the State over and above the costs they impose than any other class of vehicle....

THE LONG-AWAITED White Paper on trunk roads policy is still as far away as ever. A Department of Transport spokesman told CM...

ARE DRIVERS an illiterate lot? One is tempted to think that this is the view of the Ministry of Transport, for in two of its...

INTERNATIONAL transport drivers have blockaded another European border with more than 1000 lorries in order to try and force...

BEBB International Travel of Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan, has promoted Alan Evans to duty traffic manager. The Freight Transport...

' SHOULD be all systems go ✓ Leyland Vehicles tssenger vehicle division this .ar. New models are well on e way and existing...

TECHNICAL requirements for roof strength of coaches are being finalised and will be discussed in June in the United Nations...

A HIGHLAND operator has been warned that he must improve his maintenance standards, even though there is no other operator in...

THE GOVERNMENT has admitted that operators might move into the more profitable bus routes when trial areas are set up as a...

THE POSSIBILITY of introducing a cheap long-distance coach system in Europe — modelled on the line of America's famous...

THE BEST and cheapest wa of travelling by public tram port between major centres i by express bus, declared Pal liamentary...

[HIS YEAR marks the tenth mniversary of licensing and :a-operation between himler-Benz and FAP?AMOS, Belgrade, which has tow...

SCANIA has introduced a range of bonneted lorries, the TSeries, with gross weights ranging from 16.5 tonnes to 36 tonnes. But...

THE PROBLEM maximising vehicle load without the risk of over loading at sites remote fron official weighbridges can no be...

By the Hawk On right Lines for heroism WILLIAM LINES : a 57-year-old tanker driver employed by James Hemphill, of Glasgow,...

Let's simplify drivers' hours OVER the past few years, drivers hours have gone through many changes. Even now there are still...

For the discerning operator who wants the right van for the job, Scammell offer the choice. The new Scammell Ensign and the...

Birmingham University Accident Research Unit head favours .minimum bhp per ton for hgv in order to reduce speed differentials...

ises danger Tim Blakemore learns about the maintenance safely net behind a Belgian operator's Bucking Bronco logo A BUCKING...

At least they should between 17-20 April, for as Tim Blakemore's preview shows there should be much to interest the tipping man...